Oolong (the pig), Yamcha (another pig) and Puerh are all types of tea !.
Gohan, Vegeta(ble), Raditz (radish), Nappa (cabbage), Bro(co)ly and all of the saiyans are named after food. Goku’s real name is Kakarot. His father is Bardock, etc.
Cooler and Frieza are obvious, they get to be where food gets to die after being forgotten.
Ten Shin Han is a dish with crab (or shrimp, I don’t remember)
Piccolo is named after an instrument, so were the other demons (Drum, etc.)
Bulma comes from Bloomers, a type of female underwear. Trunks are the male equivalent.
Bididi Babidi Boo ! Is the formula used by the good godmother (or whatever her name may be) in Cinderella.
I think I must have forgotten some characters, but you get the gist of it.
Here’s some characters you missed, but don’t worry, these ones are pretty subtle and only the most hardcore fans and linguists noticed:
There’s a bunch of characters named Android <number>. You might think that they are all members of the Android family and just really like numbers so use those as names, but that’s not the case. They are all actually androids and their numbers indicate the order they were made.
And the character Cell isn’t named after a prison theme like most viewers suspect, but he is named such because he was built using cells from many other characters.
Also, Roshi means old teacher, but I’m sure everyone already knew that.
A wide cross-section of Dragonball and DBZ characters are named after food, often via some manner of pun. Goku is probably just slightly more literally minded about this than others.
Notable exceptions are Piccolo, Mr. Popo, and… infamously… Bulma.
I just learned that gohan means rice.
Oolong (the pig), Yamcha (another pig) and Puerh are all types of tea !.
Gohan, Vegeta(ble), Raditz (radish), Nappa (cabbage), Bro(co)ly and all of the saiyans are named after food. Goku’s real name is Kakarot. His father is Bardock, etc.
Cooler and Frieza are obvious, they get to be where food gets to die after being forgotten.
Ten Shin Han is a dish with crab (or shrimp, I don’t remember)
Piccolo is named after an instrument, so were the other demons (Drum, etc.)
Bulma comes from Bloomers, a type of female underwear. Trunks are the male equivalent.
Bididi Babidi Boo ! Is the formula used by the good godmother (or whatever her name may be) in Cinderella.
I think I must have forgotten some characters, but you get the gist of it.
So what happened to Krillin? Or rather… Kuririn?
Migrated south at winter
Here’s some characters you missed, but don’t worry, these ones are pretty subtle and only the most hardcore fans and linguists noticed:
There’s a bunch of characters named Android <number>. You might think that they are all members of the Android family and just really like numbers so use those as names, but that’s not the case. They are all actually androids and their numbers indicate the order they were made.
And the character Cell isn’t named after a prison theme like most viewers suspect, but he is named such because he was built using cells from many other characters.
Also, Roshi means old teacher, but I’m sure everyone already knew that.
Kamehameha was a Hawaiian king
But it was not intentional
A wide cross-section of Dragonball and DBZ characters are named after food, often via some manner of pun. Goku is probably just slightly more literally minded about this than others.
Notable exceptions are Piccolo, Mr. Popo, and… infamously… Bulma.
Who?
